| Dr. Paul Gilbert |
The purpose of this page is to help you learn how to
keep your gums in a lasting state of health by means
of an effective gum maintenance program. Gum
maintenance is also called periodontal maintenance.
keep your gums in a lasting state of health by means
of an effective gum maintenance program. Gum
maintenance is also called periodontal maintenance.
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| Periodontal Maintenance |
| • HEALTHY TEETH ‘n’ GUMS FOR A LIFETIME • |
Dr. Gilbert's Holistic Connections Health Newsletter
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The statements and information on this website have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration
and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The body's ability and power to heal
depends upon the totality of diet, nutrition, lifestyle and environmental factors. No claims for the cure of any
disease is intended, or implied. Always consult a health care practitioner when dealing with disease states.
and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The body's ability and power to heal
depends upon the totality of diet, nutrition, lifestyle and environmental factors. No claims for the cure of any
disease is intended, or implied. Always consult a health care practitioner when dealing with disease states.
How can I tell if my gums are already healthy?
Healthy gums are never infected. When your gums are healthy, they are firmly
attached to your teeth by what is called the periodontal, ligament. The word periodontal
literally means around the tooth. The periodontal, ligament attachment is strong and tight
enough to prevent any germs or their toxins from getting through, and any body fluids,
like blood, from getting out. You can usually recognize when you have a healthy gum
attachment because your gums will be pink, firm, and never bleed or hurt with routine
brushing, flossing, or when chewing food.
If I haven’t been to my dentist in awhile, how will I know if I have gum disease?
It’s a good idea to visit your dentist to confirm that your gums are healthy and not at one
of the various stages of gum disease. The truth is that you might not be able to tell
if you have gum disease unless you see your dentist. Self diagnosis is not
recommended, as it can lead to false conclusions. With that in mind, some of the common
symptoms of gum disease you can observe yourself are listed next, to help you increase
your awareness of the condition of your gums.
Gum disease isn’t hard to recognize. The most common features and symptoms
are:
Whether you have gum disease in its mildest form, called gingivitis, or you have
moderate or even advanced stage chronic gum disease, you must first heal your gums,
if your goal is to keep your teeth for a lifetime. As obvious as this may seem, the reality is
that if nothing is done to alter the unhealthy diet and lifestyle choices that often result in
gum disease, you can eventually lose one or more of your teeth from gum disease, or end
up with a painful gum abscess. Once you have discovered how to heal your gums, it
will be easy for you to learn how to keep them healthy and keep your teeth
indefinitely, with a nutritionally focused gum or periodontal maintenance
program.
So how do I heal my gums?
There are several pages already written in this website that carefully explain how to heal
your gums using a specialized nutritional program. In addition to nutritional support with
specific supplements, you may still need any dental treatment recommended by your
dentist. Healing your gums is not hard to do because your body is a marvelously
designed living organism with the innate ability to regulate, repair, heal, renew
and defend itself, provided it is given the right nutritional tools to accomplish
this. This is how natural healing always occurs.
To read about specific all natural nutritional tools to heal your gums, click here.
So get started healing your gums by looking at any one of the following pages on this
website:
Healthy gums are never infected. When your gums are healthy, they are firmly
attached to your teeth by what is called the periodontal, ligament. The word periodontal
literally means around the tooth. The periodontal, ligament attachment is strong and tight
enough to prevent any germs or their toxins from getting through, and any body fluids,
like blood, from getting out. You can usually recognize when you have a healthy gum
attachment because your gums will be pink, firm, and never bleed or hurt with routine
brushing, flossing, or when chewing food.
If I haven’t been to my dentist in awhile, how will I know if I have gum disease?
It’s a good idea to visit your dentist to confirm that your gums are healthy and not at one
of the various stages of gum disease. The truth is that you might not be able to tell
if you have gum disease unless you see your dentist. Self diagnosis is not
recommended, as it can lead to false conclusions. With that in mind, some of the common
symptoms of gum disease you can observe yourself are listed next, to help you increase
your awareness of the condition of your gums.
Gum disease isn’t hard to recognize. The most common features and symptoms
are:
- Heavy plaque accumulations around your teeth, especially at the gum line. Plaque
is a cream colored sticky substance on your teeth that is loaded with germs. If you
scrape some of it off and hold it near your nose, it has an unpleasant odor. - Tarter and stains around your teeth, especially at the gum line. Tarter is hardened
or calcified plaque. - Bleeding gums, especially when you brush or floss your teeth, or when you eat.
This is the most common sign of gingivitis, the first stage of gum disease. However,
bleeding gums may also be a sign of chronic gum disease, or periodontitis. - Red looking gums at the gum line and between your teeth.
- Swollen, puffy gums at the gum line and between your teeth.
- Teeth that are becoming loose or are already loose. Spaces that develop between
your teeth that weren’t there before are a sign of your teeth becoming loose. - Persistent mouth odor or bad breath, especially if a mouth rinse or mints don’t help.
- Mild recession of your gums. Recession alone is not a sign of gum disease.
- One or more of the above and lack of pain. However, if your chronic gum disease
evolves into an acute gum abscess around a tooth, you will usually have pain.
Whether you have gum disease in its mildest form, called gingivitis, or you have
moderate or even advanced stage chronic gum disease, you must first heal your gums,
if your goal is to keep your teeth for a lifetime. As obvious as this may seem, the reality is
that if nothing is done to alter the unhealthy diet and lifestyle choices that often result in
gum disease, you can eventually lose one or more of your teeth from gum disease, or end
up with a painful gum abscess. Once you have discovered how to heal your gums, it
will be easy for you to learn how to keep them healthy and keep your teeth
indefinitely, with a nutritionally focused gum or periodontal maintenance
program.
So how do I heal my gums?
There are several pages already written in this website that carefully explain how to heal
your gums using a specialized nutritional program. In addition to nutritional support with
specific supplements, you may still need any dental treatment recommended by your
dentist. Healing your gums is not hard to do because your body is a marvelously
designed living organism with the innate ability to regulate, repair, heal, renew
and defend itself, provided it is given the right nutritional tools to accomplish
this. This is how natural healing always occurs.
To read about specific all natural nutritional tools to heal your gums, click here.
So get started healing your gums by looking at any one of the following pages on this
website:
| Dr. Paul Gilbert |
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Why is the care of a dentist still needed?
It is very important that you regularly see your dentist or hygienist, because only
these professionally trained people can thoroughly inspect your teeth and
gums, and only a dentist can recommend appropriate treatment for your gums,
should you still need dental care.
If your dentist and hygienist are holistic, you are more likely to be the recipient
of dental hygiene visits that focus on how to keep your gums free from the
germs associated with gum infection, rather than on traditional cleanings.
Although getting your teeth professionally cleaned is helpful, the primary focus of your
dental hygiene visit should be about what you eat or don’t eat and how it affects your
ability to resist gum infections.
You can also learn how the foods you eat — or avoid eating — significantly determine
your ability to resist germs, by looking at Nutrition for Healthy Gums - Part 1 and
Nutrition for Healthy Gums - Part 2 on this website.
Unfortunately, most dentists and hygienists rarely provide any kind of nutritional advice.
While it is true that visiting your dentist for a professional cleaning by a hygienist is always
beneficial and highly recommended, without daily, high quality, effective nutritional
supplementation, the benefits of improved oral hygiene to help maintain your
gums in a true state of health, will only be temporary. That’s why dental hygienists
who don’t provide you with nutritional and dietary advice are always recommending you
return periodically for cleanings.
Brushing and flossing regularly at home is also helpful, because it reduces the number of
germs on the teeth and under the gums. The primary benefit of brushing and flossing is to
remove germ filled plaque, thus making your breath smell better. Reducing plaque also
helps your fillings last longer.
To find a holistic or biological dentist, go to the International Academy of Oral
Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) and click on the “Find a Doctor” link on the home
page.
If you haven’t already done so, get started on the road to healthy gums by looking at
Chronic Gum Disease, CoQ10 for Gum Disease, Vitamins for Healthy Gums,
Periodontal Supplements or Remedies for Gum Disease.
Once you have healed your gums you can keep them that way with a program of
periodontal maintenance. This program must include both whole food nutritional
supplementation and periodic dental examinations with hygiene visits, preferably at the
office of a biological dentist. In essence, gum or periodontal maintenance is simply
an extension of the same completely natural nutritional program that restores
your gums to a condition of health.
Please click on this link to learn about the best available all natural supplements
to keep your gums healthy.
Why is whole food vitamin supplementation so important for gum and
periodontal maintenance?
Without the addition of all natural whole food vitamin supplementation to your diet, it is not
likely you will be able to maintain your gums, or any part of your body for that matter, in a
completely healthy condition.
Why? Because, your body is perfectly capable of maintaining well being by
means of your natural, innate ability to constantly renew yourself. However, it
does this best when you give yourself all of the nutrients it needs. The easiest,
most efficient and most effective way to give your body all the nutritional tools it
needs, is with completely natural whole food supplements added to your daily
food intake.*
Since all healing occurs from within, a well fed body is able to resist disease and
thus remain healthy, better than a poorly fed body. Looking at it another way, a
well nourished body doesn’t make mistakes.*
This is how healing occurs and this is how health is maintained. This is how you
really stay healthy. This is how your gums remain healthy.
Is this holistic concept of how health really works, new to you? Are you skeptical that
health is an internal, do it yourself job, rather than the external result of taking medicines?
Then watching the first eight minutes or so of a video on Functional Nutrition may help
you see things differently.
To find out more about all natural supplements to keep you and your gums
healthy, please click on this link.
Specialized whole food vitamin supplementation also enables you to
compensate for other factors that affect your health and the health of your
gums. Do you exercise regularly and sufficiently? Do you eat foods that are organic? Do
you read labels on packaged processed foods to see what you are putting in your body?
Do you stop buying and eating the stuff you know isn’t good for you? Do you avoid as
many environmental toxins as possible?
If you are like most people, you are not likely to be motivated to put much energy
into these important components of your lifestyle that either contribute to or
erode the health of your gums, and your whole body as well. That is why all
natural whole food vitamin supplementation is so important for both healthy gum
maintenance and for your overall well being.*
Why are all natural whole food vitamin supplements so effective?
All natural, whole food vitamin supplements uniquely enhance the quality or your body’s
physical, mental, and emotional well being, because they accomplish the same things
that natural and organically grown foods do. When you add all natural whole food
vitamin supplements to your diet, you strengthen and support your immune system and
you elevate the health of your entire body. At the same time, you maintain the health
of your gums! And like most people, you may find that these supplements can also help
you:
Whatever health benefits you are seeking, you are invited to try these products and see
for yourself how they can elevate you to a new level of confidence regarding the health of
your mouth and the rest of your body. That means greater peace of mind for you. How
much is that worth?
It is very important that you regularly see your dentist or hygienist, because only
these professionally trained people can thoroughly inspect your teeth and
gums, and only a dentist can recommend appropriate treatment for your gums,
should you still need dental care.
If your dentist and hygienist are holistic, you are more likely to be the recipient
of dental hygiene visits that focus on how to keep your gums free from the
germs associated with gum infection, rather than on traditional cleanings.
Although getting your teeth professionally cleaned is helpful, the primary focus of your
dental hygiene visit should be about what you eat or don’t eat and how it affects your
ability to resist gum infections.
You can also learn how the foods you eat — or avoid eating — significantly determine
your ability to resist germs, by looking at Nutrition for Healthy Gums - Part 1 and
Nutrition for Healthy Gums - Part 2 on this website.
Unfortunately, most dentists and hygienists rarely provide any kind of nutritional advice.
While it is true that visiting your dentist for a professional cleaning by a hygienist is always
beneficial and highly recommended, without daily, high quality, effective nutritional
supplementation, the benefits of improved oral hygiene to help maintain your
gums in a true state of health, will only be temporary. That’s why dental hygienists
who don’t provide you with nutritional and dietary advice are always recommending you
return periodically for cleanings.
Brushing and flossing regularly at home is also helpful, because it reduces the number of
germs on the teeth and under the gums. The primary benefit of brushing and flossing is to
remove germ filled plaque, thus making your breath smell better. Reducing plaque also
helps your fillings last longer.
To find a holistic or biological dentist, go to the International Academy of Oral
Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) and click on the “Find a Doctor” link on the home
page.
If you haven’t already done so, get started on the road to healthy gums by looking at
Chronic Gum Disease, CoQ10 for Gum Disease, Vitamins for Healthy Gums,
Periodontal Supplements or Remedies for Gum Disease.
Once you have healed your gums you can keep them that way with a program of
periodontal maintenance. This program must include both whole food nutritional
supplementation and periodic dental examinations with hygiene visits, preferably at the
office of a biological dentist. In essence, gum or periodontal maintenance is simply
an extension of the same completely natural nutritional program that restores
your gums to a condition of health.
Please click on this link to learn about the best available all natural supplements
to keep your gums healthy.
Why is whole food vitamin supplementation so important for gum and
periodontal maintenance?
Without the addition of all natural whole food vitamin supplementation to your diet, it is not
likely you will be able to maintain your gums, or any part of your body for that matter, in a
completely healthy condition.
Why? Because, your body is perfectly capable of maintaining well being by
means of your natural, innate ability to constantly renew yourself. However, it
does this best when you give yourself all of the nutrients it needs. The easiest,
most efficient and most effective way to give your body all the nutritional tools it
needs, is with completely natural whole food supplements added to your daily
food intake.*
Since all healing occurs from within, a well fed body is able to resist disease and
thus remain healthy, better than a poorly fed body. Looking at it another way, a
well nourished body doesn’t make mistakes.*
This is how healing occurs and this is how health is maintained. This is how you
really stay healthy. This is how your gums remain healthy.
Is this holistic concept of how health really works, new to you? Are you skeptical that
health is an internal, do it yourself job, rather than the external result of taking medicines?
Then watching the first eight minutes or so of a video on Functional Nutrition may help
you see things differently.
To find out more about all natural supplements to keep you and your gums
healthy, please click on this link.
Specialized whole food vitamin supplementation also enables you to
compensate for other factors that affect your health and the health of your
gums. Do you exercise regularly and sufficiently? Do you eat foods that are organic? Do
you read labels on packaged processed foods to see what you are putting in your body?
Do you stop buying and eating the stuff you know isn’t good for you? Do you avoid as
many environmental toxins as possible?
If you are like most people, you are not likely to be motivated to put much energy
into these important components of your lifestyle that either contribute to or
erode the health of your gums, and your whole body as well. That is why all
natural whole food vitamin supplementation is so important for both healthy gum
maintenance and for your overall well being.*
Why are all natural whole food vitamin supplements so effective?
All natural, whole food vitamin supplements uniquely enhance the quality or your body’s
physical, mental, and emotional well being, because they accomplish the same things
that natural and organically grown foods do. When you add all natural whole food
vitamin supplements to your diet, you strengthen and support your immune system and
you elevate the health of your entire body. At the same time, you maintain the health
of your gums! And like most people, you may find that these supplements can also help
you:
- look younger
- live longer
- feel a whole lot better
Whatever health benefits you are seeking, you are invited to try these products and see
for yourself how they can elevate you to a new level of confidence regarding the health of
your mouth and the rest of your body. That means greater peace of mind for you. How
much is that worth?
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